What Was/Is Your Weirdest Symptom?

[Blues in NYC]

Threads about symptoms have really helped me accept my diagnosis. Also, reading others accounts have helped me not feel so alone in some of the weird stuff I've gone through in the past couple years. So my question today, as a trail of breadcrumbs for all trauma survivors, what is your weirdest symptom you or your doctor or caregiver have been able to attribute to your PTSD.

It can be something that is active or has long since subsided. But something that maybe doesn't show up in all the literature or is described as being experienced by only a small percentage of people with PTSD.


I'll start. For me, when I was burying all the trauma while it was still ongoing, my gums (which otherwise are quite healthy according to my dentist) were so apt to bleed it was crazy. My dentist had me coming in three four times a year just to keep an eye on them. She'd ask, "So tell me, are you under a lot of stress currently." And in my typical denial for those years I'd say, "Not any more than the typical New Yorker I think."

So yeah, that's mine: Bleeding gums. My doc has since confirmed that this can and does happen from time to time. Since then, my symptoms have become more classic (i.e. shakes, flashbacks, crying jags) and the gums have stopped bleeding. :thumbs-up

Okay, so what've you got or been through symptom-wise that's weird?

 

[TLight]

I batter my abdomen and slap myself when I'm upset or hurting.

There, it's out in the open.

 

[TLight]

Next best thing to dying I guess........

 

[Claire]

Do you mean physical symptoms?

 

[Irton Pike]

The violent and impromptu diarrhoea.



PTSD. The gift that keeps giving.:thumbs-up
I knew you'd like that one.


fortunately it has calmed down a lot. Honest. No, really it has. I'm down to just the one pair of Y-fronts a day now.

 

[Irton Pike]

I sort of feel quite bad for lowering the tone.

Sorry. But I am English. And we do toilet humour. Like horrible little school boys.

 

[Blues in NYC]

Do you mean physical symptoms?

I think I was thinking physical symptoms--but I guess looking back at my original post this is really about self assessment. You know, how when we all started realizing that we weren't total freaks with our symptoms. SO in light of that, I guess go for what in your mind is your weirdest symptom--physical or otherwise. :)

 

[Blues in NYC]

I sort of feel quite bad for lowering the tone.

Sorry. But I am English. And we do toilet humour. Like horrible little school boys.

Not Enlgish, but we also do the toilet humor in our home as well. And yeah, if I hadn't had the bleeding gums for a spell I'd say that the runs would be up there. Man do I hate it when I get a week of those. :(

 

[fin]

Aim a Laydee!!! (no jokes about brits ok) thankyou very much...:rofl:not all of us genteel english folk do do toilet humour Ail heave you know, good sighers.

a week of those. :(

A WEEK!!! Years mate -me! Years -I had it for - meds!

and people wonder

~fin



I soo know I am going to regret this.:crazy:
I soo know it!!

symptoms; loss of any kind of humour;) diarheoa, spelling;issues;punctuation,problems; crying a lot recently!! etc etc...I will have to think on this -GOOD QUESTION BLUES bleeding gums too, but I dont know if that is a stand alone thing or not. Shivery, I get real cold and shivery, & I used to sweat-quite bad, and I would like to repeat USED TO there. Heart things, asthma...say when....lol!!!

 

[Jestadud]

The funniest for me clumsiness!
I had a joke with my therapist that as if ptsd isn't enough I was becoming clumsy maybe I could blame that on the ptsd as well.
I was stumped when she told me clumsiness (or lack of coordination) is a genuine sympton.
Unless she was just having the last laugh!!!

 

[midi]

As a kid, my mother used to make fun of me because I used to walk into walls and trip over air. The bowel thing has calmed down - And - so has the self-harming!

The weirdest thing I do is doodle non-stop when I am out in public places. It really bothers some people, but others are ok with it.

 

[cragger65]

The wierdest one for me was feeling suddenly like I'm in a plane that is going to crash and there is someone yelling at me over the radio headset, trying to get me to avoid disaster. This comes complete with body siezing up, sky-rocketing heart-rate, and complete disconnection from what's around me. It used to happen once or twice a day, then 1-3 times a week, then once a month, now about once every 3 months. It doesn't sound like classic dissociation to me, more a manifestation of some huge amount of kinetic anxiety energy in me. This is the most disturbing to me, at least.

The runs, the shakes, the panick attacks, the suicidal depression... ah, it's lovely, it just makes me want to break out in song. Laaaaaaa ;P (I'm actually smiling at the idea ;P)

Dave